Police Sealed Off Part of Capitol After Reports of Gunfire

Fox News ^ | July 15, 2009 | NA

[buccaneer81]

Police sealed off some of the entrances to the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after apparent gunfire erupted a few blocks away.

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[bgill]

Per Fox - shots two blocks from Senate and four blocks from Sotomayor hearing. A person is in custody. High speed chase.

[tyke]

A crash in a nearby street and shots fired in the street. Sounds like an argument between two locals. Nothing to do with the Senate.

[unixfox]

well the way the goverment is going its a wonder that there aren’t 300 million shots fired!!!

They're lucky their houses haven't been burned down yet. They keep pushing, they will rue the day.

[RedCell]

They’ll probably try to link the perp to FR.

[bronxville]

They’ve broken away now.

[buccaneer81]

Louisiana and Jefferson Aves. Possibly the end of a high speed chase.

[Ramius]

From AP via Yahoo:

Police seal off part of Capitol

9 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Police have sealed off some of the entrances to the U.S. Capitol after reports of gunfire a few blocks away.

There were no immediate reports on possible injuries, although numerous emergency vehicles were visible in the nearby streets.

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maybe just nearby?

[dead]

Shots fired in a Washington DC park!

It would be news if no shots were fired in a Washington DC park.

[penelopesire]

A couple of blocks away? 4 blocks from the Senate. Sounds like the thieving politicians are just trying to get sympathy. It was a police chase..mercedes bin...sounds like the cops shot the dude. 5-15 shots. It was a union station car jacking probably started blocks away.

[buccaneer81]

Don’t forget the two Capitol Police officers killed there about 10 years ago.

[Dick Bachert]

Fineswine’s 9 mil Baretta went off. She left off the safety. Never took the mandatory weapons training course.

[bmwcyle]

It is a Bush Supporter’s fault.

[chiefqc]

Did the current squatter soiling the Whitehouse order one of his body guards to shoot someone for not bowing as he passed by?

[11Bush]

First word out of my mouth when the news broke was....

Reichstag!

[Dick Bachert]

Fineswine’s 9 mil Baretta went off. She left off the safety.

She’s been so very busy screwing the country that she never took the mandatory weapons training course.

[bronxville]

My brother just got laid off last week from a Wall St firm. He’s home so all is well.

[donna]

The United States Capitol shooting incident of 1998 was an attack on July 24, 1998 which led to the death of two United States Capitol Police officers. Detective John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut were killed when Russell Eugene Weston Jr. entered the Capitol and opened fire.

Chestnut was killed instantly and Gibson died during surgery at George Washington University Hospital but not before wounding Weston, who survived. Weston's exact motives are unknown, but he does suffer from mental disorder and maintains a strong distrust of the federal government. He remains in a mental institution due to paranoid schizophrenia and has yet to be tried in court.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Religion of peace tourist breaking through the barricades?

[angelcindy]

I predict its going to get bad real fast..

[Evil Slayer]

Yeah, I hate it just when Glenn was about to really get into some good stuff. Hope he has a repeat of what he was going to talk about tomorrow when they broke for the news just while ago.